The late Judith Shklar begins by showing how Montaigne and Montesquieu, although there are subtle differences between the two, are of the view that cr...
Thanks! That's correct but you say it as if it doesn't make sense to define close physical contact like that. The idea is to avoid every person's kill...
Well, the logic is rather simple. What we have on hour hands is an infectious pandemic and the mode of spread is close contact - living/working in the...
Kant supposedly wanted to unify rationalism with empiricism; he took an eclectic approach and was of the opinion that though we perceive the world thr...
According to well-known science educationist Neil deGrasse Tyson, all disaster "movies" begin by people not paying heed to warnings from scientists, e...
Firstly, it's evident that the particular DNA chemical phenomenon that interests you has been described comprehensively. If not, you wouldn't be so am...
The idea that the ends justify the means is that anything and everything is permissible in order to achieve a goal, given that the goal in question is...
A question that might be helpful at this juncture is: would you rather have a purpose that you decided for yourself than have a purpose assigned to yo...
I just skimmed through the article and so I'm uncertain whether Shklar touched upon the point I feel is pertinent to her taking an exception to puttin...
The problem with being non-empirical i.e. looking beyond the obvious material world is that we can't distinguish between the real and the unreal. What...
Jordan Peterson's take on religion won't go down well with the religious section of the population. It's as if he would let faithful believe in a lie ...
Perhaps the urge to look beyond that which is obvious - the material world we constantly bump into day and night - is either a sign of our despair at ...
The material world is, as a matter of fact, the only aspect of reality we have any knowledge on. Everything else i.e. the non-material aspect of reali...
The Munchhausen trilemma is, as far as I can tell, an insurmountable barrier to knowledge. None of the options avaiable are satisfactory in any sense ...
I remember watching a video of a debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson's view on religion is pragmatic in a way because his e...
I understand where you're coming from but to "...challenge us to see the world for what it IS, not just for what we'd prefer it to be" is, to be bruta...
I'll read the essay later if you don't mind but for a start, bears a striking resemblance to theodicy. In both cases some of us would rather say no to...
I'm forced to admit my abject ignorance on the matter of specific artworks that would validate my position that art is about beauty. Consider my point...
The way I see it, all humans, perhaps all sentient beings for that matter, come with a constellation of limits to (their) understanding imposed by phy...
The question that naturally arises is, what's the difference between humans and non-human animals? Any ideas? You made a point that's been at the back...
I'm doubtful whether art can done to the exclusion of beauty considering that beauty is the only thing that gives it a unique identity. I'm aware that...
But the aesthetic VALUE is completely determined by beauty, the aesthetic quality. To speak of one is to speak of the other. You wrote "...aesthetic q...
I'd love to agree with you that "...other animals are as rational as humans" but I'm afraid that's incorrect . Moreover, I'm not claiming that non-hum...
Sod off? :smile: Human rights are grounded in harm i.e. we have rights because we can be harmed - we have a right not to be harmed. That humans have t...
It appears that, from my cursory reading of the wikipedia entry on mysticism, the main objective is to achieve some kind of union with god and if not ...
The philosophical side to dog neutering would have to be about animal rights. Does spaying a dog amount to a violation of their rights? Oh, I forgot, ...
If the only way to show your love for someone is to give fae a flower, chocolates, smile affectionately then give a flower, chocolates, smile affectio...
:up: Fantastic! The reason why Duchamp was recognized as an artist was because some of his works were beautiful. OK. In other words, to many, those wh...
You seem to have misread me but the OP did have that overall form to give the reader the impression that I was of the view "...unless one has tantrums...
I can tell you this, your views depart from the mainstream understanding of art is. Read below: Marcel Duchamp was simply having some fun and unfortun...
I sympathize with your concerns. I wouldn't want the forum to become a troop of troglodytes ready to swing their clubs at the slightest provocation. N...
Social distancing is the reason why things aren't worse than they are. The reason why the situation is so bad is because people have been flouting soc...
I did admit that creativity is part of art but that it's the essence of art is debatable unless you mean to say that beauty is a facet of creativity. ...
Are you aware of four dimensionalism. According to it, each observer has faer own plane of simultaneity i.e. what appears to be simulnateous events to...
Well, if we're going to discuss a topic, we should isolate it from other topics i.e. to talk about art, we need to exclude non-art from the conversati...
What you say here squares with how Aristotle and later generations of thinkers viewed humans, as rational animals. On this view, emotions can be consi...
Jung's synchronicity concept is simply that there's meaning, albeit private to the individual experiencing it, in coincidences. He was very adamant or...
You mean not on this planet but that would be odd since it makes sense to me and I'm definitely on this planet. Indeed, one is the inability to emote ...
I only report that which I observe. Your list is intriguing to say the least. In some world, chatbots, people who try to be chatbots, and philosophers...
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